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For those young enough to have the time left to get new equipment and learn to use it; you might benefit from a couple you tube machinist that show various projects with casting and making molds; some with traditional pattern making, and some with 3D printed molds. A challenge would be finding metal suitable to cast gun parts from. You might check out MrPete222, Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery.org, and maybe Sand Rammer would help with mold making. This is not my "thing", but it seems to have some application to the things that interest us. Mike
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Im pretty sure Steve, that thats how companies like Renovators Supply duplicate all the old hardware patterns. Hinges, doors sets, what not.
My son-in-law made my daughters engagement ring on a 3-D printer that laser fused sintered metal. He said cost was by weight of matl used.
Out there doing it best I can.
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Great progress with the scanner and especially with the product output coming off the CNC. Some diehard muzzleloader folks are moving away from castings to CNC products and with a scanner setup like yours some of the fancy relief engraved Jaeger furniture could be made.
Anyway, super job using the equipment.
Dennis
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Craig, Small edits to the scan data are easy to do. It is adding editable features to a CAD program that really takes time. You certainly can scale items up once you have an editable feature in order to compensate for shrinkage if you wanted to make a mold. Options are endless. The trick will be cranking out a usable product at a reasonable price. Steve Sounds like the 4-function calculator, circa 1975: already getting use and coming down in price, but not yet commodified. Give it 10 years and this will be everywhere for making custom parts, and the price will have come way down.
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Pretty neat. So now what is the value added cost of the above hammer?
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Raimey rse
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Smooth going with the fit up. Only curious, if you scan a part, can your program create a mirror image. Say, if one hammer were missing, can it be machined off a scan of the opposite?
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That is exactly what was done in this case Craig, I made the left hammer using the right hammer as a pattern. Once I imported my model of the right hammer into Solidworks (CAD program) it was a simple matter to create a mirror image of the model to create the left hammer model.
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